https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12921-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Tripartite entanglement and Bell non-locality in loop-induced Higgs boson decays
IFLP, CONICET-Dpto. de Física, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, C.C. 67, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
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roberto.morales@fisica.unlp.edu.ar
Received:
8
April
2024
Accepted:
15
May
2024
Published online:
6
June
2024
In this article, we study quantum entanglement properties of the three-body 
decays (for 
) within the context of the Standard Model augmented with CP-violating interactions in the lepton Yukawa sector. Our aim is to elucidate the distribution of entanglement between the final photon, lepton and antilepton across the phase-space. These rare Higgs boson decays occur at 1-loop level, presenting a unique opportunity to scrutinize quantum correlations of fundamental interactions in tripartite systems by computing concurrence measures and investigating Bell non-locality. Moreover, we explore post-decay and autodistillation phenomena. Multipartite entanglement measures have much richer structure than those in the bipartite case, thus deserve more attention in collider phenomenology. In this line, we analyze here novel observables for these three-body Higgs boson decays, which can be extended to other multiparticle systems within the high-energy regime. We found that entanglement manifests among final particles, occasionally achieving a maximally entangled state in specific kinematical configurations. Also, these decay channels are promising for Bell non-locality tests but CP-effects are suppressed by lepton masses in this kind of observables.
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